The critical response of the news media and the financial leaves scientists to the novel coronavirus leaves environmental advocates and long-view money managers imploring: Where’s the outrage on any given day for pollution- and temperature-linked deaths (already adding up and projected to increase) from accelerating man-made climate change? Where’s the impetus for moving on policy change and market-driven fixes to limit a future environmental health crisis — one on par with or even greater than a coronavirus?
By Rachel Koning Beals. MarketWatch. March 6, 2020.